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Meanings of tambour hoop in English

Russian
пяльцы
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Tool for holding fabric taut during embroidery.

пяльцы
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Examples for "tambour"
Examples for "tambour"
1
Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore?
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2
Lady Maria never lifted up her eyes from her tambour-frame.
The Virginians
3
Remember that everything is to be tambour work, not smooth.
Poor Folk
4
Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings.
A Book of Scoundrels
5
A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
1
He looked down at Felice-shewas embroidering that day, seated primly before the ebony tambour frame.
Little Miss By-The-Day
2
She sat at her tambour frame listening till all her senses and emotions seemed to have fled to her ear.
The Maid of Maiden Lane
3
She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
4
Needles-Scissors-Thimbles-Frames-StandandFramecombined- Tambour Frame-Cord-making Appliance-Requisites for Transferring Patterns-Pricker-Knife-Spindle-Piercer-SuitableMaterials for Embroidering upon-Threads of all Kinds-Stones, Beads ,&c
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
5
Formerly, the girls spent their mornings like ladies at their tambour frames; now, they are lounged away in almost utter indolence.
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
1
Others were knitting, or working with needle and embroidery hoop.
The great hunt
2
She composed herself quickly and took up her embroidery hoop.
Oracle's Queen
3
But here I am holding something called an embroidery hoop.
The Guardian
4
He would have liked better to see her in the shade with an embroidery hoop.
The Fighting Shepherdess
5
You can change thread without moving embroidery hoop.
Wired
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